Biography

My name is S Elizabeth Morris, everyone calls me Lizzy. I am an Agile Coach and Trainer. I believe that being Agile is about a state of heart beyond being about a mere state of mind. It is this heart that makes Transformation happen and evolve until it becomes an organic interwoven part of a companies culture and employee default behavior.

When I was first exposed to Scrum, I would never have thought I would hold this premise today. I have spent the last 18 years of my life as a Management Consultant, crossing industries such as banking, insurance, entertainment, non-profit, utilities, education, legal, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, and of course IT.

My sweet spot is Organizational Transformation, not just because of my experience in adapting Agile best practices to an organizations ideal state. Put simply, there is nothing greater than starting to see all the “arhah” moments happening with teams, executives and middle management. It tends to be like a domino effect that had once seemed impossible. When every training class and Agile presentation and side conversation you have had comes to life and makes sense to customer. Nothing like it ..it beats ice-cream!

Today I partner with my best friend and run a company called BeardedEagle, we offer services that are geared towards individuals, teams, managers, executives and organizations at large who are ready to embark on their Agile journey. We partner with other groups and colleagues to help deliver value whenever we can.

So here I am today with Scrum being a passion. I am blessed to go to work everyday pursuing one of my passions. I am blessed to be able to be share it with others through training, coaching, writing and mentoring. I love to learn from others and share ideas. I look forward to the collaboration I will experience here within the alliance and out there with many of you on the field.

Designed and lead Agile transformation for several client accounts and developed training for executive leadership to teach them scrum fundamentals. Utilized Scrum framework to plan, manage and implement

Rackspace, Scrum Coach

2010-05-06 - 2010-08-26, San Antonio, texas, United States

Was asked to come and train, lead, coach and mentor development teams to around scrum. Trained and coached product owners, business analysts, and help to set up a Agile Accepting PMO and define metrics and map Scrum vs Waterfall to roadmap adoption

Johnson and Johnson, Global Delivery Manager Medical Devices

2008-07-01 - 2009-01-30, Raritan, New Jersey, United States

Set up and managed a scrum based portfolio for the global medical devices web division of global service IT. Set up each project backlog with client, trained offshore and onshore resources to do scrum. Wrote scrum training materials online learning and reference guides to starting and managing scrum projects. Travelled across USA to ensure full Scum adoption throughout portfolio. Suppled JITT as needed to support designed classed.

USAA, Agile Consultant

2007-07-01 - 2007-12-28, San Antonio, Texas, United States

Lead Scrum based web redesign project served as scrum master, and agile lead